Changing default keyboard layout in Linux

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kbdd

KBDD(1) 						    XKB layout switching daemon 						   KBDD(1)

NAME

       kbdd - simple per-window keyboard layout switching daemon

SYNOPSIS

       kbdd [ -n | --nodaemon ]
       kbdd [ -h | --help ] [ -v | --version ]

DESCRIPTION

       kbdd is a simple keyboard layout daemon that switches and restores layouts on a per-window basis.

       -n, --nodaemon
	      run in nodaemon (foreground) mode

       -h, --help
	      print a short usage summary

       -v, --version
	      print the program version

DBUS INTERFACE

       Kbdd  registers	a  dbus  interface  in	order  to  notify  a window manager about layout change and listens on this interface for incoming
       requests.  This interface can be used in WM widgets to indicate the current layout.

       The dbus interface has the following methods:

       getLayoutName( uint32 )
	      returns a string representing the layout group name

       set_layout( uint32 )
	      sets current group

       getCurrentLayout
	      returns current layout group id

       next_layout
	      switches to the next keyboard layout

       prev_layout
	      switches to the previous keyboard layout

       The following events (signals) are available:

       layoutChanged
	      returns new group number

       layoutNameChanged
	      returns name for the new group

       You can change the layout with the following dbus-send command:
       dbus-send --dest=ru.gentoo.KbddService /ru/gentoo/KbddService ru.gentoo.kbdd.set_layout uint32:1

BUGS

       Some users reported problems with sticking meta-keys (Alt or Meta4), however, at the moment there is not enough	information  collected	to
       conclude if this is caused by kbdd or not.

       Newly found bugs may be reported on the project page at github <http://github.com/qnikst/kbdd/issues>.

AUTORS

       Alexander V. Vershilov <alexander.vershilov@gmail.com>

       This manual page was updated for the Debian project by Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski@gmail.com>

SEE ALSO

       dbus-send(1), dbus-monitor(1)

       You can get more information about kbdd usage on wiki pages of the kbdd project <https://github.com/qnikst/kbdd/wiki/Usecases>.

version 0.6							    27 Aug 2011 							   KBDD(1)

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